Happy New Year!

Kete 1.3 has been marked as the stable branch (i.e. officially gone from "feature frozen" to "released"). Kete 1.3 represents a huge amount of work beyond Kete 1.2. Many people and organizations have contributed inspiration, code, feedback, and funding to this effort (see Credits below for details). Thank you to the contributors and to everyone that uses Kete.

Features

Perhaps the biggest set of features are around Multilanguage Support and Translation.

A large amount of Kete sites, such as this one, are already using the Kete 1.3 codebase in production, including the bilingual Chinese Digital Community.

How you can help with this release

We done a lot of documentation already for Kete 1.3, but there are some things we haven't been able to get to. Please have a look at Are You Willing to Help Out section here, for specific things you can contribute to the writing or improvement of.

In addition, we had our first public fundraising drive for the Image Selector in the Rich Text Editor. We received donations from many of the above, as well as including Wellington City Libraries, John Billings, CALYX, KnowledgeWare Technologies, and Bill Howard.

Kete is a Ruby on Rails application, so huge thanks go to those that have worked on Ruby and Ruby on Rails for providing a great foundation to build an application on top of. Thanks also go to the team at IndexData (http://www.indexdata.com/) for their work on Zebra which Kete uses as the basis for its search and browsing functionality.

Kete also benefits from numerous plugin and gem developers. Thank you for the great software libraries!

Again we would like to thank New Relic who provided their services to identify areas that needed optimization as we prepared for the Kete 1.3 release.